Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-02-13
SPARKS FROM sln JONES
Which Fly IN Al Directions
From the Forge Of the
Great Evangelist.


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knsw was lawyer
RaEieion ID only Iowa going absul
DOING ssmsshinR.
The hnppieas creature IL be who hsa
no fhouRht for himself
rd rather be noble, generous sinnel
thsn 5 stin9y Methodist
Toe hardesa fellow have had 10 deal
with Is my villas husband
ID i slightly hard to keep 3 90 pound
fat, sleek Methodist straigllk.
/ Do NOT know any human being vito
has any sp4sial claim on God.
The head and The heart in eos inciion
are what ge 20 Usks up : preacher.
The creed that is no good a. all ID
that by which men clafm TO be the
elect.
@ a never made two men alike. and,
II be did. one Of them vas Of 30 sc
count.
have seen many q cultured man who
haa not had seHse enough % keep sober.
What Il creed bat an old akin stuffed
with sawaass, good 70 be exhibited in 4
museaml
A maa isn'te sinner because be is an
infdel. bat be 10 an infdel because be il
q sinner.
Jesus woald put the angels on half
rafious before be would LET soldier in
bis army suffer.
There 10 nothing on earth worse than
sslhshness, and hsll 10 nothing bat sell
fshness on are.
Heaven is juss the other side Of where
. man has aone his level best through
and shFcagh.
/ have been a pastor. bat / never al
lowed sny one bnt the cripple or the sick
man TO ride me.
/ wish you could all get 90 you wosId
be afraid Of Gre. / want all my IRE this
side the grave.
Les as leave OF singing about the
sweet by and b" and sing about the
sweet now and nov.
Nov, | have had a constitutional,
solid, concentrated, upright. downFiQht
hatred for shams al my life.
II does help fellow nightly once in
q while to get sick, and shake him
over q coffin every four or FIVE years.
That fellow lying In tbs gutter drunk
IL better man 10 the sigut of God
than those fellows talking about him
Most anybody can do a thing they
feel like doing, bus il takes true man
to do q thing when be doesn't feel like
doing IL.
When man has more religion than
sense, he's . fool; when be has more
sense than religion, he's rascal nine
times out of ten.
The power Of the pulpit is in the pew.
Ii Is rough 10 pat q preacher in an ice
boz. and then curse aim because be will
not sweat.
You folks in Boston conld set up q
brain factory anywhere, but have You
religion enough TO save your souls at the
same timer
They have been after nae about CIV
grammar long enough to ssFaightea me
cut. but always try 30 adapt my style
10 my congregation.
David vas q great sinner, bat David
was magnificent repenteF. He beat
any man Of bis day SHINING, bat he also
beat them all Fepentins.
have often wondered where the great
sterehouse of Gods music was, from
which be supplied the birds aud ether
musical agencies.
One editor said ought TO be- clad be
cause he had made me. I asked b n
II be could not make some nose. Well,
he said be had no more dirt.
We are helping on the car Of saliva
ton with our left band and stopping il
with our right hand. I thir b the thing
would 20 on faster IL Il was left loose.
A man that will creep up to my bed.
side and steal dollar out OF my pocket
is 3 gentleman, scholar and a Chris
tian, beside a man that would smfEch
my good name.
We do not want a preacher who talks
about heaven SO far OF, and tells you he
does net think many are going 70 get
there. bus he Is going 70 lead the pro-
ceSsi0n.
There may appear In my remarks
what seems 10 be sevity, but l would
rather have anything than that sober,
solid. manipulated Stiffness some try 60
palm OF as religion.
Religion sets the Ten Commandments
30 music, and does it so that when God
shall touch the chord Of che human
heart IL would make music which would
charm an angels ear.
Nov, IL We members Of the church will
only stand together. azd when the devil
hits one Of rs with bis paddle, II abe
balance OF us would catch him on the
Arst boance, Why, then the devil would
be ont-d0n't you see 7
/ tell 700 that Harvard and AndoveE
and all your societies fer intellectual
and social and moral hfe In yonF city
and Stase eAnn0s Suppress The 25o0 bar
rooms. With their Internal traffic.
There Is many q little fellow going
round about With half fare ticket IN
hia pocket and getting his goods on
credit a minister like that goes through
the world apsloxizin9 for his existence.
God Almighty has q quarrel with
every erowd that perch themselves on
hired pews and shut tbs doors on the
poor and perishing Of the town That
is about the hardest thing I have seen
yea. since Ieame 30 Boston.
One fellow aid 10 me at one place
where vas preaching, Jones, I vas
GlsGWsted 81 youF using 80 muc0 slang:
yoa said hog and deg" Toe so5l
thoaRht those cords we're slang. Why,
they are the names Of animals.
You talk eeout your orphans homes
and your institutions. and then aboat
pour colleges and yoaF homes for the
INDECENT, and you keep zoo fac cries
foE the manufacture % orphans and
people 10 Al these homes.
A boy gets $4,000 in the LOUISIANA
State Lottery, bet | would rather be q
boy Who had piowed whole week for
81. l would slap that dollar into my
pocket. push nay breeehes undsr nv
head al nieht. and the eagle on that
dollar wseld turn into nightingale and
sing NE 10 sleep.
Sappess you 80 down some day and
try 10 hyposheeaie your NJ thoaisEn for
sasBe dry e00da Hos much do you
snppose yea vii get f0F itg Wky, my
dear SIR, the sfosekespaF woaid say Il
can show Yoa the masses 81 Msabodists
Ga ny books v6o have bsen ewing ms
fer twenty years"
GENERAL IaeaS As A PeEF,